Abolish Plutocracy If You Would Abolish Poverty.

How Strange A Scene Is This In Which We Are Such Shifting Figures, Pictures, Shadows. The Mystery Of Our Existence--i Have No Faith In Any Attempted Explanation Of It. It Is All A Dark, Unfathomed Profound.

There Are Two Tendencies In All Our War Talk.... The First Is To Boast, If Not Of Ourselves And Our Deeds, At Least Of Our Army, Our Corps, Our Regiments. The Other Is To Find Fault With, To Criticize, To Censure, To Condemn Others. If There Is A Victory, We Gained It And Must Have The Credit Of It. If There Is A Failure, It Was The Fault Of The Other Fellow,--he Must Be Blamed For It.

No Political Party Can Ever Make Prohibition Effective. A Political Party Implies An Adverse, An Opposing, Political Party. To Enforce Criminal Statutes Implies Substantial Unanimity In The Community. This Is The Result Of The Jury System. Hence The Futility Of Party Prohibition.

Strikes And Boycotting Are Akin To War, And Can Be Justified Only On Grounds Analogous To Those Which Justify War, Viz., Intolerable Injustice And Oppression.

The Real Difficulty Is With The Vast Wealth And Power In The Hands Of The Few And The Unscrupulous Who Represent Or Control Capital. Hundreds Of Laws Of Congress And The State Legislatures Are In The Interest Of These Men And Against The Interests Of Workingmen. These Need To Be Exposed And Repealed. All Laws On Corporations, On Taxation, On Trusts, Wills, Descent, And The Like, Need Examination And Extensive Change. This Is A Government Of The People, By The People, And For The People No Longer. It Is A Government Of Corporations, By Corporations, And For Corporations.